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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Earl Enright.

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ROBERT EARL ENRIGHT

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 11, 1944 – December 31, 1968

Service record

Robert Earl Enright, of Phoenix, Arizona, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 31, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 35W · Line 12

Position of Panel 35W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Tactical Microwave Systems Repairer (26L)
Unit (as recorded)
1 SIGNAL BDE
Born
October 11, 1944
Home of record
Phoenix, Arizona (Maricopa County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 31, 1968
Age
24
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

20 names on the Wall carry the date December 31, 1968; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 35W, Line 12

From Phoenix

All 207 names from Phoenix →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.